Friday, September 5, 2008

Soil Moisture

So soil moisture sensors..... my first "engineering design" project.  I felt like we got somewhere today, but it was in the last 5 minutes with the whole narrowing down the target audience.  It's hard to work backwards from a product to an audience, mainly because if you can't find one, you're screwed.  The guy at least gets engineering though, it seems.  He understands the complete picture and always seems to bring it up.
About engineering in general, I was having an identity crisis: what should I do? Computer? Electrical? Mechanicial? Chemical?  I had no clue.  Luckily, the feeling I get is that it doesn't matter.  According to several professors I had listened to, people hire engineers, not ____ engineers.  Of course, it's good to have a focus, but focuses breed stagnacy.  That's a good thing for me to hear, because now I can worry less about taking the right classes and worry more about those.  

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